KOCHI: After the tourism department allocated Rs 5 crore for the development of Fort Kochi Beach, following its inclusion in ...

“The project draft was floated well in advance,” he says. “People and even the panchayat members only started taking a closer look at it once football clubs and sports enthusiasts expressed ...

These "pigeon people" were writers from a Japanese blog who staged the scene as a publicity stunt when they learned Google's Street View team would be photographing their area. The image quickly ...

The Japanese government said Friday that the remains of three Ainu Indigenous people that were kept at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland will be returned to Japan. The three skulls are set ...

From Hawaii's Papakōlea Beach to Butiama Beach in Tanzania to Reynisfjara in Iceland, there are many incredible beaches all over the world. The new National Geographic book,100 B ...

About 250 carp-shaped streamers, known as koinobori, are being flown at a beach in the central Japanese prefecture ... On Sunday, about 150 people, including group members and high-school students ...

In our weekly list of business people on the move, we highlight Palm Beach County professionals who are making a difference. These are people from across the spectrum of public and private ...

Barriers to change Today, around 60% of Japanese people – both men and women alike – approve of a change in the law to allow husbands and wives to have separate surnames. But to date, lawmakers have ...

Several types of horses have galloped or lumbered along a sandy beach during a decades-old racing event in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. The spring tradition began in 1958 as a fun ...